Anesthesiology KOLs
About this list
4,284 key opinion leaders work in Anesthesiology. All 4,284 are basic profiles built from NPPES, OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov.
Mayo Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital have the largest Anesthesiology groups. They are spread across 375 institutions; the five largest account for 7%.
1,590 have reported industry payments.
73 carry the Emerging badge for the trajectory of recent publications. The most cited are William Clark, Nicholas Kassebaum and Daniel Sessler. Every count comes from public federal and open sources and was last published on November 8, 2026.
- 4,284
- Key opinion leaders
- 1,590
- Reported industry payments
- 73
- Emerging
- November 8, 2026
- Data as of
How these numbers are counted: sources and methodology.
By the numbers
- $43.4M
- Industry payments reported, program year 2025Source: CMS Open Payments
Where the work is
The institutions with the most profiles on this list. Each links to its own page.
How this list is built
Who is listed: every profile whose published research or registered trial activity places them in Anesthesiology, read from OpenAlex topics, PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov. This KOL finder lists the area as a whole, sub-areas included.
How the grid is ordered: enriched profiles first, then by citations on OpenAlex. The directory lists the same people with every filter and sort it offers, including recent and rising activity, and exports the result.
What is never here: scraped contact details, prescription claims data, or a judgment of anyone's influence. Every count on this page is read from a public registry and republished with its source and the date it was last published.
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The 24 most cited
William Clark, MD
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- publications
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- h-index
- 7
- companies
Nicholas Kassebaum, MD
Seattle Children's Hospital
- 197
- publications
- 93
- h-index
- 5
- companies
Daniel Sessler, MD
Outcomes Research Consortium
- 1,404
- publications
- 139
- h-index
- 16
- companies
Clifford Deutschman, MD
- 372
- publications
- 54
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Monica Vavilala, MD
University of Washington
- 555
- publications
- 64
- h-index
Mark Nunnally, MD
University of Chicago
- 178
- publications
- 37
- h-index
Mervyn Maze, MB, CHB
University of California, San Francisco
- 546
- publications
- 94
- h-index
Jack Shanewise, MD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- 106
- publications
- 30
- h-index
Daniel Talmor, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- 581
- publications
- 81
- h-index
- 3
- companies
Cynthia Thomson, MD
University of Arizona
- 574
- publications
- 81
- h-index
David Warltier, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
- 452
- publications
- 92
- h-index
Sean Mackey, MD, PhD
Stanford Medicine
- 580
- publications
- 76
- h-index
Brian Bateman, MD
Stanford Medicine
- 520
- publications
- 89
- h-index
Jean-Francois Pittet, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
- 335
- publications
- 67
- h-index
James Eisenach, MD
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- 756
- publications
- 75
- h-index
Joseph Tobias, MD
Nationwide Children's Hospital
- 1,163
- publications
- 66
- h-index
Franklin Dexter, MD, PhD
University of Iowa
- 854
- publications
- 74
- h-index
David Gaba, MD
Stanford Medicine
- 259
- publications
- 58
- h-index
Juraj Sprung, MD
Mayo Clinic
- 538
- publications
- 65
- h-index
Steven Shafer, MD
Stanford Medicine
- 453
- publications
- 64
- h-index
Stavros Memtsoudis, MD, PhD
Hospital for Special Surgery
- 522
- publications
- 74
- h-index
Aryeh Shander, MD
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
- 341
- publications
- 62
- h-index
- 13
- companies
Robert Truog, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
- 441
- publications
- 73
- h-index
- 4
- companies
Eeshwar Chandrasekar, MD, MPH, MS
University of Rochester Medicine
- 43
- publications
- 26
- h-index
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